Can AI Become Conscious? — With Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan is the author of A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness. Pollan joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss whether AI can ever become conscious and what that question reveals about ...
25 Feb 55min
OpenAI Closes in on $100 Billion, OpenClaw Acquired, AI’s Productivity Question — With Aaron Levie
Box CEO Aaron Levie joins for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) OpenAI's anticipated $100 billion fundraise 2) Does OpenAI's big forthcoming raise settle questions about its ...
20 Feb 55min
How Google DeepMind Operates & Experiments — With Lila Ibrahim and James Manyika
Lila Ibrahim is the COO of Google DeepMind. James Manyika is the senior Vice President for Research, Technology, and Society at Google. The two join Big Technology Podcast to discuss how Google's AI e...
18 Feb 50min
Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We're also joined by Steven Adler, ex-OpenAI safety researcher and author of Clear-Eyed AI on Substack. We cover: 1) ...
13 Feb 1h 8min
Who’s Winning The AI Race? + Software’s Future — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
Sridhar Ramaswamy is the CEO of Snowflake. Ramaswamy joins Big Technology Podcast to break down the competitive dynamics in the AI race today, drawing from his experience working at Google and competi...
11 Feb 58min
Software In Shambles, OpenAI vs. Anthropic Super Brawl, Amazon’s Struggles
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) AI worries crush software stocks 2) Why is software in the crosshairs? 3) Is it vibecoding or that softw...
6 Feb 1h 3min
AI's Research Frontier: Memory, World Models, & Planning — With Joelle Pineau
Joelle Pineau is the chief AI officer at Cohere. Pineau joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss where the cutting edge of AI research is headed — and what it will take to move from impressive demos to...
4 Feb 54min
The Moltbook Uprising, NVIDIA’s OpenAI Pullback, Apple’s Conundrum
M.G. Siegler of Spyglass is back for our monthly tech news discussion. M.G. joins us to discuss Moltbook, the new Reddit-style social network where 150,000 AI agents are chatting, upvoting, and even p...
2 Feb 55min
